has it really been 'identified' as this, or has it been dismissed as this?
Andy has self identified his condition as a congenital growth hormone disorder. Do some research before making assumptions:
His youthful appearance is neither an act nor a miracle of makeup. It'sthe result of a "growth hormone problem," as he told the New YorkObserver a couple years ago, when "Super Bowl" went national.No, to identify him as young looking we need only look at him.
Forgive me, I misspoke. \What I meant to say was "To identify Andy as being truly young we need to first define which of his characteristics we are associating with youth." Correlation is not always causation. One can look old without being old or look young without being young. By dissecting which of Andy's physical qualities we are specifically attributing to "his youth," we can determine if the various symptoms of his disorder are actually causing him to be young or just have side effects that can be mistaken as youth (such as texture of skin, stature, voice, etc).
hmm, then why is it that scientists are using sex hormone treatment to treat infertility? Hormones, such as kisspeptin are being used to balance hormone levels in infertile people. That shows there is obviously a correlation between sex hormone and sexuality. And the anecdotal fact that andy has had 5 children with several women pretty much cancels out your presumption on this ground.
The circumstances that cause infertility likely vary from person to person. To say that all individuals that have low sex hormones are incapable of reproducing is a gross generalization. If you bothered to read any of my previous post you would have seen my above source discussing that causation of gh deficiency and sex hormones. You would have also seen that many people afflicted with gh deficiency go on to have children (such as Charles Sherwood Stratton also referenced above).
Unless we equate aging with a bio-linear phenomenon, as most people tend to do. It could be that systemic metabolic failure due to protein farnesyltransferase contributes to the 'appearance' of aging in these people. Or it could be that there are other, as yet unknown variables we have yet to observe. Either way, something is leading to the 'effects' of aging in these children. Despite whether or not they are aging in the bio-linear sense we often describe. And it is distinctly separate from Andy Milonakis condition.
Progeria is not considered a model of human aging because not all organs are affected. There is, for example, no evidence of senility or of aging in the central nervous system. I was using progeria as an example of a condition that causes visible signs of aging but is not actually considered by the contemporary medical community as being related to aging itself. In this respect, it is similar to Andy's condition in that both conditions cause what appears to be the slowing (hastening) of aging, even though they are doing no such thing.
Your point of this was to somehow show that if we 'look deeper' we can actually see a 33 year old man under there somewhere. Hence..
And andy still looks like a 14 year old kid. But the disillusionment continues below with...
Yea, he might actually look a whole 16 years of age then! Wow!
Wow, a lot of attitude in this response. It is almost hard for me to dissect your arguments from the thick condescending attitude. For someone who is making such an extraordinary claim and is clearly carrying the burden of proof, I have seen you bring no evidence to this discussion to support your claims. On the contrary, you have failed even to do even basic research on Andy's condition -- having admittedly stated that you were unsure if he had officially commented on actually having a congenital growth hormone deficiency (Google quickly provided an answer here).